[Kabal]

As if you didn't notice from my posts and other thread title, I am a proponent of the term "basic" as an insurgent term of 2014. It properly connotes so many traits of the modal Western college-educated working broad:

Boring.
Conformist.
Mundane.
Simple.
Predictable.
Unsophisticated.
Middling.
Garden-variety.
Trite.
Common.
Uniform.
Typical.

Chicks are basic anywhere in the world--but the difference is that--in the West, as per the PC zeitgeist, we're supposed to think (or, at least, pretend) that they're not. I don't even notice it when I'm abroad; however, in contrast, it's jarring in the States.

As for some of the highlights from the eponymous article (amusing all around):

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1. “I spend my money on $20 mac and cheese from a restaurant literally across the street from my apartment. Some days you just need what you need and that thing that you need is gourmet mac and cheese brought to your door from half a block away.” —Nik, 23

And all days, that's why you're poor.

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4. “First, I got into waxing for a while and maintaining that shit really adds up. I also have a 'fancy lady' complex where if I have an especially rough day, I buy myself really expensive cocktails. There’s a $16 drink at Fig. 19 with a rose petal floating on top that I buy every time I go through a breakup. I think it comes from some warped SATC-inspired view of adulthood (like I should be out drinking Cosmos with my girlfriends and saying things like 'I may be single, but I’m FABULOUS'). But really, I should probably save the $16.” —Kara, 25

Yes, really, probably.

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5. “Trendy clothes. Cab fare. Bar tabs. And ordering in rather than cooking. Also: drugs, besides pot, because pot encourages not going out. Pot is a good investment.” —Erin, 31

Marijuana is certainly a better investment than you, Erin, at 31.

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8. “When I moved to New York, I had this really fucking dumb Carrie Bradshaw ideal of how I should dress and act. I thought that it was normal to spend a bunch of money on trendy shoes, or that New Yorkers were expected to eat out every other meal. Long story short, I got into 4,000 dollars of credit-card debt my first year here. I’ve been here for three years now, and I’m still shaking off the dumb impulses that show gave me. My brain can’t accept that it will never own Manolos if I also want to own a home someday.” —Chrissy, 26

Literally... it can't. Ew.

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13. “Fucking brunch. Fucking brunch is the reason I will never own property.” —Allie, 23

Or maybe, Allie, you are the reason you will never own property.

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15. “I spend money on makeup, blowouts, and nail art, in huge part for the Instagram likes. It is probably the saddest thing about myself.” —Naomi, 27

Sadly, this is the closest any girl on this list gets to introspection.

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18. “Designer coffee. There is this really Brooklyn-y coffee shop across from my office, and going there every day feels like being inside a Pinterest board. I probably spend 12 dollars a day on coffee alone, partially because that dumb coffee shop is so fucking cute.” —Liz, 32

That "dumb" coffee shop is certainly smarter than you, Liz, at 32, in taking advantage of your naive preoccupation with social media and "cute[ness]."

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2. “I have this really bad habit of thinking that because I am a ‘professional woman,’ I need all of this stuff to make me really BE that woman. Like, I will justify the constant purchase of expensive haircuts, manicures, leather laptop cases, blazers, and conservative heels with ‘this is basically a business expense.’ Except that I cannot write those expenses off, and now I have like ten more ‘work purses’ than I would ever need.” —Sarah, 28

Oh shit, looks like you can't just write those expenses off because real life doesn't abide by double-hamster accounting.

Some fellow-bimbo comes to Sarah's defense in the comments:

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This is actually a real problem, not just dumb frivolous purchasing. As a professional woman, the expenses to look acceptable are HIGH. You have to have reasonably expensive blazers, suit pants, a nice adult looking briefcase, etc, if you're going to be taking meetings and be taken seriously. It's one of those things where being a woman is really annoying. You can't go into a business meeting, especially sales, without really good grooming and expect to come out of it with a good result.

Or maybe it's because, deep down--you know you have little to offer beyond your looks and presentation--so you better look as nice as possible, in an arms race against other "professional" sloots who know subconsciously that it's certainly not their intellect and/or business acumen keeping them employed.

And it's not like men's business outfits are cheap...

Conclusion:

Amusing how Sex in the City was invoked by girls in their twenties, lampshaded by one commenter:

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The most intriguing part of this was that a 25-year-old and a 26-year-old both cite Sex and the City as their Platonic ideal of NYC life. Get with the times, ladies. It's a great show but a) passé b) bearing little to no resemblance to reality. The lead actresses are in their 50s now.

These bimbos are in their mid-twenties to early-30s. Some of them are closer to menopause than they are to their teenage years, yet they're bumbling around like they're temporarily-downtrodden-princesses in a Disney movie with a happily-ever-after just around the corner.

Another data point in the notion that Schopenhauer was right; women really are eternally half-children.

No wonder these sloots try to sneak appetizers past you guys on dates.

[The Lizard of Oz]

I like "basic" for 2014.



Cool post...

[WesternCancer]

If any guy doubts the significance feelings, image, and status have in a woman's eyes look no further than this list.

[El Chinito loco]

If you read closely 2/3rds of the shit listed is just frivolous shit to impress other women while the other 1/3rd is to satisfy basic gluttony and self medication with alcohol/drugs.

[Kingsley Davis]

You know the word is powerful when it's co-opted by....bitches.

"The Basic Bitch phenomenon continues and we couldn’t help but do a guy version: the Basic Bro. Are you dating one? Here are 30 signs your man is cookie-cutter and could use some originality:

1. He talks and laughs way too loudly.

2. His apartment is shit but his TV surround sound cost as much as his car.

3. He travels in packs of dudes wearing jeans and untucked dress shirts.

4. The hardest drug he’s ever done is weed.

5. He peaked in high school.

6. He’s never met a mirror he didn’t love.

7. He thinks period sex is gross.

8. He waxes.

9. He wants to be Tucker Max.

10. Cologne commercials speak to him.

11. He has at least one pair of pastel pants.

12. He uses Axe body spray.

13. He’s obsessed with Fantasy Football.

14. He’s seen The Wolf of Wall Street numerous times.

15. He likes a good tan.

16. He shops.

17. He pops his collars.

18. He’s really into P90X or Crossfit.

19. He plays music during sex, usually something by Robin Thicke.

20. He has a guitar, or some other instrument, in his apartment that he can’t even play.

21. His kitchen cupboard has nothing in it but a tub of protein powder.

22. He uses the words “gay” or “retarded to describe things he doesn’t like.

23. He’s so pissed that Entourage is over and can’t wait for the movie.

24. His chest is bigger than yours.

25. He refers to his favorite sports teams as “we.”

26. He watches porn but nothing too deviant.

27. He thinks Kate Upton is soooooo hot.

28. He loves Family Guy.

29. He fist pounds and chest bumps.

30. He’s a total momma’s boy."

http://thebolde.com/30-signs-youre-dating-basic-bro/

[Yeti]

I am an optimist deep down, since my earliest days. As such, before learning more about the world and starting to question things, I assumed (being an optimist) that the people around me were interesting, cultured, and classy.

Including women. So I took a woman's sarcasm to be good humor, her meandering pontifications on the merits of marijuana usage to be valuable philosophy, and her trip to the lakehouse with her family for summer holidays and hooking up with the local pretty boy to be proof of her sexual maturity.

But the reality is that Western culture, but especially my own (American) culture, is becoming less classy, less cultured, less interesting with each generation. An optimist would take his surroundings to be of natural value, something to admire - and so I did. What the hell else did I know?

Now I know that my own generation - we grew up in the 1990s - was the most materialistic and vacuous in American history - maybe even Western history generally, for you'd have to look at isolated pockets of elite behavior in distant lands of long ago to find a people more without purpose, more violently hedonistic, than my own.

So, that is the situation - the young Western woman of today is less interesting, classy, and intelligent than her cousins of yesteryear. She knows very little. She knows almost no real hardship. As Paul Theroux said, it's hard to be interesting when you're young. But young women today will never be interesting. They simply aren't worth more energy than is required to deal with them on superficial, fleeting levels.

[Pestilence]

Damn, the west truly is fucked if you got these hoes behaving in that manner. Is it similar to this everywhere in the US?

(11-24-2014 10:55 PM)Kingsley Davis Wrote:  

9. He wants to be Tucker Max.

[Yeti]

(11-24-2014 11:12 PM)Pestilence Wrote:  

Damn, the west truly is fucked if you got these hoes behaving in that manner. Is it similar to this everywhere in the US?

(11-24-2014 10:55 PM)Kingsley Davis Wrote:  

9. He wants to be Tucker Max.

They simply know nothing. They lack perspective. I feel bad for them - they are probably less happy than many of their previous generations. They lack purpose. They feel this on a visceral level but have trouble putting these feelings into words.

So they make up for their inability to feel deep, sustained happiness by engaging in vacuous behavior - $24 brunch on Sundays with momosas. Cab rides home. House of Cards marathons, a grand dose of sarcasm while they type on their smartphone: I can't see that show with you but let's do lunch on Wednesday, I should be able to get away.

Basically women today are unhappy - and they are too far down the rabbit hole of not feeling anything as they become more antisocial and obsessed with technology, to know how to climb back into the light. Men too, but men by our very nature are required to be somewhat more aligned with reality. It goes without saying that the only hope for true happiness in today's world is to engage with red pill beliefs.

[davyjose]

(11-24-2014 10:37 PM)Kabal Wrote:  

And all days, that's why you're poor.

Alas , most chicks like the ones described here are never really poor, not while there is The Thirst.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Ok, but what do advanced bitches spend their money on?

[spokepoker]

(11-25-2014 01:10 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

Ok, but what do advanced bitches spend their money on?

Food for their husbands, stuff for their kids, cookware, cleaning supplies, etc.

[Bacchus]

The takeaway from this is that basics spend most of their money in order to avoid cooking and as part of an aesthetic arms race with their fellow basics.

[Vitriol]

Amazing how when you read this article or others like it that have been posted here, you get the takeaway that all of these bitches realize that their personal and financial lives are a total mess, their "careers" are going nowhere, yet they have absolutely no intention of ever doing anything about it and everyone else "just has to deal with it." It's like they're waiting for a fucking bailout and I'm sure a lot of them at least occasionally have some dude paying those credit card bills for them.

It's almost comedic, like watching Lemmings walk off the edge of a cliff. Women taking retarded "public relations" jobs that drain all their time and pay 30k a year in a high cost of living city like New York, then they spend their free time going into credit card debt that they're never going to be able to pay off from buying useless junk, yet they seem to have no awareness that they're digging a deeper hole for themselves. Just keep smoking that weed and passing out of the couch with Netflix on in the background and your cats pissing all over your overpriced hole in the wall in glamorous NYC.

[Sonsowey]

Reading this it is esy to lauggh at twenty dollar mac and cheese, but as a non wealthy person living in NYC, it really speaks to the ridiculousness of social life here. I am thinking more and more of moving out of NYC due to the insane cost of everything, even basics.

[Samseau]

(11-25-2014 03:14 AM)Vitriol Wrote:  

Amazing how when you read this article or others like it that have been posted here, you get the takeaway that all of these bitches realize that their personal and financial lives are a total mess, their "careers" are going nowhere, yet they have absolutely no intention of ever doing anything about it and everyone else "just has to deal with it." It's like they're waiting for a fucking bailout and I'm sure a lot of them at least occasionally have some dude paying those credit card bills for them.

It's almost comedic, like watching Lemmings walk off the edge of a cliff. Women taking retarded "public relations" jobs that drain all their time and pay 30k a year in a high cost of living city like New York, then they spend their free time going into credit card debt that they're never going to be able to pay off from buying useless junk, yet they seem to have no awareness that they're digging a deeper hole for themselves. Just keep smoking that weed and passing out of the couch with Netflix on in the background and your cats pissing all over your overpriced hole in the wall in glamorous NYC.

The problem is that by the time women wake up and realize they've wasted their lives, it's already too late. So it's easier to wallow in self-denial rather than make major lifestyle changes.

[J DOE]

Its no wonder that elites have a vested interest in redistributing money from men to women. They necessarily will spend money on trivial bullshit.

[Nonpareil]

I've actually used 'basic' before to describe guys who are remedial with women (ie my former roommate, who as far as I am aware has fucked just 5 girls in 9 months [to my 16] because his idea of game is 'Show up to the club already shitfaced and pass out in a booth'...that motherfucker is 'basic'), but it's more or less the same principle.

I can't say I empathize, but at least I understand; if my financial problems could be temporarily whisked away by spreading my legs for someone I wasn't attracted to every few months, my spending would probably be out of control too.

There is absolutely nothing at all wrong with weed, Entourage, shopping or The Wolf of Wall Street...Axe spray, Tucker Max, not going for it just because she's on her period (80% of the time the girl refuses because she's on her period, not me), Kate Upton and Family Guy are suspect, though.

Bro culture has saturated America; they are on every campus, in every club and at every workplace, they are easily identifiable. If you can't tell a guy is a bro within 30 seconds of meeting and speaking to him, well then you're basic...

[Saweeep]

(11-25-2014 06:38 AM)Nonpareil Wrote:  

I've actually used 'basic' before to describe guys who are remedial with women (ie my former roommate, who as far as I am aware has fucked just 5 girls in 9 months [to my 16] because his idea of game is 'Show up to the club already shitfaced and pass out in a booth'...that motherfucker is 'basic'), but it's more or less the same principle.

I can't say I empathize, but at least I understand; if my financial problems could be temporarily whisked away by spreading my legs for someone I wasn't attracted to every few months, my spending would probably be out of control too.

There is absolutely nothing at all wrong with weed, Entourage, shopping or The Wolf of Wall Street...Axe spray, Tucker Max, not going for it just because she's on her period (80% of the time the girl refuses because she's on her period, not me), Kate Upton and Family Guy are suspect, though.

Bro culture has saturated America; they are on every campus, in every club and at every workplace, they are easily identifiable. If you can't tell a guy is a bro within 30 seconds of meeting and speaking to him, well then you're basic...

To be fair, outside of this place, very few guys out there are doing better than your roommate.

As a businessman I have no problem with women wasting money on utter shit. My female customers, in a traditionally male dominated sector, spend far more than the males.

[VolandoVengoVolandoVoy]

What's your point? That some women in NYC are foolish with money and are vapid consumerists?
That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Plenty of men get rich by selling them whatever trinkets they demand.
The profit margin on a $20 mac and cheese, $500 pair of shoes, or $1000 handbag is insane.
Plus when they pay for it with a credit card, then men who own and work for that bank get paid.

[kosko]

(11-25-2014 06:50 AM)VolandoVengoVolandoVoy Wrote:  

What's your point? That some women in NYC are foolish with money and are vapid consumerists?
That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Plenty of men get rich by selling them whatever trinkets they demand.
The profit margin on a $20 mac and cheese, $500 pair of shoes, or $1000 handbag is insane.
Plus when they pay for it with a credit card, then men who own and work for that bank get paid.

No because these hard working men end up wiring these losers and absorbing thier debts. That cook with his resto might be a beta and wants a girl to wife up since he so busy. He sees loser girl whom is in his resto everyday and looka like a typical NYC heave bag hipster woman. He married her when she is 36 and absorbs all of that Mac a d cheese debt she occurred all those years.

I have always said I don't understand how modern women have money. I know now. But before it perplexed me as girls whom work 20 hours a week have designer bags and can go out all the time. I realized men subsidize women by large numbers, and in return they can get huge access to credit and then end up blowing it all on food and shoes.

[Valhalla]

You guys don't account for one thing. Plenty of these basic bitches are getting thousands of dollars worth of expenses subsidized simply by being women. Who do you think pays for their drinks, cab fairs, expensive dinners, vacations, even apartments if they're living with a guy?

Their boyfriends, guys they're dating, and beta bucks.

Of course they can spend $20 on Mac and cheese.

[VolandoVengoVolandoVoy]

(11-25-2014 06:59 AM)kosko Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 06:50 AM)VolandoVengoVolandoVoy Wrote:  

What's your point? That some women in NYC are foolish with money and are vapid consumerists?
That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Plenty of men get rich by selling them whatever trinkets they demand.
The profit margin on a $20 mac and cheese, $500 pair of shoes, or $1000 handbag is insane.
Plus when they pay for it with a credit card, then men who own and work for that bank get paid.

No because these hard working men end up wiring these losers and absorbing thier debts. That cook with his resto might be a beta and wants a girl to wife up since he so busy. He sees loser girl whom is in his resto everyday and looka like a typical NYC heave bag hipster woman. He married her when she is 36 and absorbs all of that Mac a d cheese debt she occurred all those years.

I have always said I don't understand how modern women have money. I know now. But before it perplexed me as girls whom work 20 hours a week have designer bags and can go out all the time. I realized men subsidize women by large numbers, and in return they can get huge access to credit and then end up blowing it all on food and shoes.

Again, how is that a bad thing? If some beta man wants to pay off the debts of a dumb woman, and thereby support the alpha who runs businesses and profits, I could care less.
If everyone saved very carefully, didn't eat out, and didn't buy unnecessary crap, the economy of New York would be hugely affected, and it would be much more difficult for many businesses to profit.
Again, in general, I do not get emotionally affected by other people's stupid behavior and decisions.
My thinking is does it affect me? The answer is almost always, NO.
Is there a way I can profit from it? The answer can frequently be YES. Either by making money, or by gaining insight into another way to manipulate women and get more bangs.
Many of the women in their 20s have their rent paid by their parents. That's how the math works out.

[Deuce Anna Half]

(11-24-2014 10:55 PM)Kingsley Davis Wrote:  

You know the word is powerful when it's co-opted by....bitches.

"The Basic Bitch phenomenon continues and we couldn’t help but do a guy version: the Basic Bro. Are you dating one? Here are 30 signs your man is cookie-cutter and could use some originality:

4. The hardest drug he’s ever done is weed.

7. He thinks period sex is gross.

16. He shops.

19. He plays music during sex, usually something by Robin Thicke.

22. He uses the words “gay” or “retarded to describe things he doesn’t like.

24. His chest is bigger than yours.

26. He watches porn but nothing too deviant.

27. He thinks Kate Upton is soooooo hot.

28. He loves Family Guy.

http://thebolde.com/30-signs-youre-dating-basic-bro/

[Glaucon]

It is their money, so what. I agree that they do not spend it wise, but who cares? Just do not pick up the bill for them.

[Kingsley Davis]

(11-25-2014 07:00 AM)Valhalla Wrote:  

You guys don't account for one thing. Plenty of these basic bitches are getting thousands of dollars worth of expenses subsidized simply by being women. Who do you think pays for their drinks, cab fairs, expensive dinners, vacations, even apartments if they're living with a guy?

Their boyfriends, guys they're dating, and beta bucks.

Of course they can spend $20 on Mac and cheese.

Don't forget their fathers. One basic broad i'm familiar with is living a wanna be philanthropist empowering girls and travelling around the world with money inherited from her father who along with her brother, killed himself.